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How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach Written by Tobias Leenaert Summary & Review by Beth Quick I recently finished Tobias Leenaert’s provocative, challenging, and inspiring book How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach. (Lantern Books, 2017)....

Protein is one of the largest dietary concerns which arise for people considering going vegan. Concerns and fears are typically rooted in common misguided beliefs: social conditioning which is based on falsehoods and health and nutrition stemming from at least a...

White Meat:Eating Animals and the Alt-Right by Christopher Sebastian. General Summary of discussion held at Cornell University on February 27th, 2020 For those of you that were interested but couldn’t make it to Cornell Thursday night for the talk, “White Meat: Eating...

Walking With Peety: The Dog Who Saved My Life by Eric O’Grey (with Mark Dagostino), 2017, Grand Central Publishing Reviewed by Linda DeStefanoReview translated by Rob English I love this book! It’s a true account by the author, who was morbidly overweight,...

In a lot of ways, 2019 was rough. Kids in cages. Toxic tweets. The lowest of low-brow politics. Shootings. The Amazon on fire. Everything else on fire. Resurgent anti-Semitism. Bigotry and misogyny on full display. A growing gulf between the haves and...

Last week, following the US House of Representatives unanimous vote passing the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, I was asked what I thought about the law. Truth is, when I was asked, I had no idea what I thought about it. I'd heard some vague buzz about it,...

Every year my son and I go camping. It gives us a chance to get away, just the two of us, spend some time together, hang out, talk. Every year, we pack up the tent, the hammock, some junk food, and we head to Watkins Glen. We camp, we make make vegan s'mores, we hike...